Bill Gates was born on October 28, 1955 in Seattle in a familyhaving rich business, political and community service background.His great-grandfather was a state legislator and a mayor, hisgrandfather was vice president of national bank and his father wasa lawyer. Bill believed in achieving his goals through hard work. Healso believes that if you are intelligent and know how to use yourintelligence, you can reach your goals and targets. From his earlydays Bill was ambitious, competitive and intelligent. These qualitieshelped him to attain great position in the profession he chose alsoBill was deemed by his peers and his teachers as the smartest kidon campus; Bill’s parents came to know their son’s intelligenceand decided to enroll him in a private school, known for its intenseacademic environment. That was the most important decision inBill Gate’s life where he was first introduced to computers. BillGates and his friends were very much interested in computer andformed “Programmers Group” in late 1968. Being in this group,they found a new way to apply their computer skill in university ofWashington. In the next year, they got their first opportunity inInformation Sciences Inc. in which they were selected asprogrammers. ISI (Information Sciences Inc.) agreed to give themroyalties, whenever it made money from any of the group’sprogram. As a result of the business deal signed with InformationSciences Inc., the group also became a legal business.Bill Gates and his close friend Allen formed a new company of theirown, Traf-O-Data. They developed a small computer to measuretraffic flow. From this project they earned around $20,000. The eraof Traf-O-Data came to an end when Gates left the college. Upongraduating from Lakeside Bill enrolled in Harvard University in1973, one of the best universities in the country, He didn’t knowwhat to do, so he enrolled his name for pre-law. He took thestandard freshman courses with the exception of signing up forone of Harvard’s toughest mathematics courses. He did well overthere, but he couldn’t find it interesting too. He spent many longnights in front of the school’s computer and the next day asleep inclass. After leaving school, he almost lost himself from the worldof computers. Gates and his friend Paul Allen remained in closecontact even though they were away from school. They wouldoften discuss new ideas for future projects and the possibility ofstarting a business one fine day. At the end of Bill’s first year,Allen came close to him so that they could follow some of theirideas. That summer they got job in Honeywell. Allen kept onpushing Bill for opening a new software company. Within a year,Bill Gates dropped out from Harvard. Then he formed Microsoft.Microsoft’s vision is “A computer on every desk and Microsoftsoftware on every computer”. Bill is a visionary person and worksvery hard to achieve his vision. His belief in high intelligence andhard work has put him where he is today. He does not believe inmere luck or God’s grace, but just hard work and competitiveness.Bill’s Microsoft is good competition for other software companiesand he will continue to stomp out (challenge) the competition untilhe dies. He likes to play the game of Risk and the game of worlddomination. His beliefs are so powerful, which have helped himincrease his wealth and his monopoly in the industry. Bill Gates isnot a greedy person. In fact, he is quite giving person when itcomes to computers, internet and any kind of funding. Some yearsback, he visited Chicago’s Einstein Elementary School andannounced grants benefiting Chicago’s schools and museumswhere he donated a total of $110,000, a bunch of computers, andprovided internet connectivity to number of schools. Secondly, BillGates donated 38 million dollars for the building of a computerinstitute at Stanford University. "such as the meaning of his nameis Bill Gates, which means the gate of the money..."